Gabriel Pickard on Tue, 5 Nov 2002 15:01:27 +0100 (CET) |
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A Possible World is Virtual (was: <nettime> From Tactical Media toDigital Multitudes) |
A possible world is virtual. absolutely. _This_world_is_always_fucking_impossible. ... There's something lovely about it _ that i just can't quite place my finger on. .. speak thus - and rub your finger a'll' over. that is,, compelexity. and it won't help (much) to recognize and declare it as such (don't even _try to understand). though the question may be: this? world? ok, it should be clear that a _this_world_ (in _this_ (absolute (non-multiple)) sense) does not exist. So we already have one reason why? a possible world is so utterly virtual. this is of course a question of reality and reality multiplicity and production, which presents itself asa painful and fascinating issue to a media-activist. what is often overlooked, though, is that reality != media. The term "world' even more so. I certainly do not want to criticize those who analyse and fight the evil corporate media in its malicious influence on mass realization ,but as important as this is, reality is about more than just media. media in the narrow space of communication connects information and material, virtuality and actuality. reality is nothing else but a borderline, discerning in&out, real&irreal. maybe we should get past the point of pushing around this borderline, it's all existence -anyway. much rather, i'd propose we reflect upon the everyday, unspoken implications of our "doing media| because if we realize that information is independent parallel existence, this abstractive "interface' becomes quite interesting. "doing media' and 'doing information" are two different things. now ishould say that we can hardly get around doing information, but media is still a much more alterable mass than we might think. eventhough it may seem old, i'd like to suggest that we rethink- remake- redo. if our media is discontenting, question its foundations - build a new new media -!realy /if our movement seems frustrating, poses: wastun?, why not move something else, somewhere else _and_under_another_name_. that will -andis- being done anyway. wastun?so_ what only may be tried, is both an immediate and metamediate radicalization in addition to mediate radicalism. concerning bubble&burst: now to me, as potential early representant of the generation following the gen. of 89, the whole dotcom thing had a lot to do with adolescence. with growing pains, puberty and confusion. growing up with people envying you for all the new, new developments you'll witness - and pitying you for not being able to cash in and grow in power at the beginning of the "long boom". nowadays, people don't philosophize over the future too much, they just tell you to work hard and get a good job. ;-} Maybe this can help with the analysis, seeing it all as the growing up of the 21st century. and don't let them fool you, even though it's already feeling like midlife-crisis, that's all just some youthful morosity. There's more developments around the corner the dream of the open technological future is not over yet keepitup, Gabriel. -- Gabriel Pickard what? human. http://werg.demokratica.de werGf314 # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: majordomo@bbs.thing.net and "info nettime-l" in the msg body # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime@bbs.thing.net